Events

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Weekly Movement Lab at Yoga Soup

Structured improvisation. Movement scores. Rolling on the floor. Moving in ways that heal. Connecting with new people. Playing like a kid. Moving to music in unison with other bodies. Building your movement vocabulary. Obeying your internal impulses. Expressing your juju - deeply, thoroughly - in a safe space. Risking awkwardness to ride a growing edge. Come play!

What’s this thing we’re doing?

It’s a lot of things, and you get to help it become whatever it will become.

Right now, we’ve got: Structured improvisation. Movement scores. Rolling on the floor. Moving in ways that heal. Connecting with new people. Playing like a kid. Moving to music in unison with other bodies. Building your movement vocabulary. Obeying your internal impulses. Expressing your juju – deeply, thoroughly – in a safe space. Risking awkwardness to ride a growing edge.

Come play!

Venue:

Time:7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Date:
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Price:

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Inspiratia’s Winter Retreat

We invite you to our land for our annual four day silent retreat including meditation, movement and satsang.

We invite you to our land for our annual four day silent retreat including meditation, movement and satsang.

Visit our site for retreat details, logistical information and the registration form.

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Women in the Wild

We will come together with intention to turn toward, rest in and support each other in embodying our feminine essence and harnessing our creative power. Through body-centered practices and authentic sharing we will come home to ourselves, melt our conditioning, and soften into our pleasure body and deep feminine knowing.

We will come together with intention to turn toward, rest in and support each other in embodying our feminine essence and harnessing our creative power.

Through body-centered practices and authentic sharing we will come home to ourselves, melt our conditioning, and soften into our pleasure body and deep feminine knowing.

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Out of the Mud and Ashes

In the wake of the devastating Thomas Fire and resulting mudflows, our community has been severely impacted. OPUS Archives presents an evening of reflection and entertainment featuring the recipients of the 2018 New Mythos Artist Grants; local artists who will showcase their creativity in theater, dance, music, video, and other mediums to help process and understand our new reality.

In the wake of the devastating Thomas Fire and resulting mudflows, our community has been severely impacted. OPUS Archives presents an evening of reflection and entertainment featuring the recipients of the 2018 New Mythos Artist Grants; local artists who will showcase their creativity in theater, dance, music, video, and other mediums to help process and understand our new reality.

Due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter, may not be suitable for all audiences.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Movement Lab

What’s this thing we’re doing? It’s a lot of things, and you get to help it become whatever it will become.
Right now, we’ve got: Structured improvisation. Movement scores. Rolling on the floor. Moving in ways that heal. Connecting with new people. Playing like a kid. Moving to music in unison with other bodies. Building your movement vocabulary. Obeying your internal impulses. Expressing your juju - deeply, thoroughly - in a safe space. Risking awkwardness to ride a growing edge. Come play!

What’s this thing we’re doing?

It’s a lot of things, and you get to help it become whatever it will become.

Right now, we’ve got: Structured improvisation. Movement scores. Rolling on the floor. Moving in ways that heal. Connecting with new people. Playing like a kid. Moving to music in unison with other bodies. Building your movement vocabulary. Obeying your internal impulses. Expressing your juju – deeply, thoroughly – in a safe space. Risking awkwardness to ride a growing edge.Come play!

WEDNESDAYS at Yoga Soup 7-8:30pm

Venue:Yoga Soup
Santa Barbara ,
CA

Time:7 - 8:30 pm

Date:
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Price:$10

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Wisdom Weavers: An Embodiment Journey for Women

When we join forces as women, it’s easier, more effective, and a lot more fun to strengthen and grow our capacity to embody our feminine nature: wild, wise, fierce, loving and free. This half-day journey in Santa Barbara, CA will provide the chance to shed old ways of being and claim the truth of our essence through movement-based, body-centered practices.

When we join forces as women, it’s easier, more effective, and a lot more fun to strengthen and grow our capacity to embody our feminine nature: wild, wise, fierce, loving and free.

This journey will be a co-created, nurturing space where we’ll shed old ways of being and claim the truth of our essence.

Through movement-based, body-centered practices you’ll have the opportunity to come home to yourself, rest into your body, and ground into the earth.

This will be the beginning of a new movement for women called Wise Women Unite, launching in the new year!

Growing Bliss Bodies: Sparking Full Aliveness with Body Intelligence, Presence, and Play

Are you ready to experience the pleasure of being fully alive in your body? Are you willing to make the shift from adrenaline- and fear-based living to embodied presence and flow? If so, consider joining Katie Hendricks and me for five days at Esalen in January. The seminar invites exploration and practice of key skills that favor innate joy, befriend your inner life, and nurture your unique aliveness.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Wisdom Weavers: An Embodiment Journey for Women

When we join forces as women, it’s easier, more effective, and a lot more fun to strengthen and grow our capacity to embody our feminine nature: wild, wise, fierce, loving and free. This half-day journey in Santa Barbara, CA will provide the chance to shed old ways of being and claim the truth of our essence through movement-based, body-centered practices.

When we join forces as women, it’s easier, more effective, and a lot more fun to strengthen and grow our capacity to embody our feminine nature: wild, wise, fierce, loving and free.

This journey will be a co-created, nurturing space where we’ll shed old ways of being and claim the truth of our essence.

Through movement-based, body-centered practices you’ll have the opportunity to come home to yourself, rest into your body, and ground into the earth.

This will be the beginning of a new movement for women called Wise Women Unite, launching in the new year!

Monday, October 24, 2016

Unleash your Wild Gypsy Soul Summit

Tap into your inner wild, be authentically yourself, and live vibrantly: join the Unleash your Wild Gypsy Soul Summit that I'm speaking on (and that's completely free!) to hear how 20 experts do it and how you can too.

Tap into your inner wild, be authentically yourself, and live vibrantly: join the Unleash your Wild Gypsy Soul Summit that I’m speaking on (and that’s completely free!) to hear how 20 experts do it and how you can too. Runs October 24 – November 16, 2016.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Choosing Happiness Summit

Happiness isn’t something we have to work for... Happiness isn’t something we have to wait for. It’s totally free and it’s possible right now.

Happiness isn’t something we have to work for… Happiness isn’t something we have to wait for. It’s totally free and it’s possible right now. Our natural state of being is one of contentment and joy. If we can rest into ourselves and be at home in our bodies, we can allow this infinite well of positive energy to circulate through us all day long.

Are you giving your body what it’s asking for? When did you last do something just for you, without wanting to please anyone else and without taking other people’s feelings and needs into account?

Join us for The Choosing Happiness Summit and learn how you can leave stress and strife behind by listening to your body, moving through your day with ease, and choosing what brings you joy.

Venue:

Date:
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Price:Free

Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Nourished Momma Summit

The Nourished Momma Summit is a great resource for parents. It's a virtual interview series in which 21 experts and I share ways to stay centered and joyful while raising happy, healthy kids.

The Nourished Momma Summit is a great resource for parents. It’s a virtual interview series in which 21 experts and I will share ways to stay centered and joyful while raising happy, healthy kids. It’s completely free and runs October 8 through November 4, 2016.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Your Sacred, Sexy Life with Anahita Joon Tehrani

Learn how to embrace your sexuality, redefine your power & set yourself and your gifts free!

Are you ready to unleash your gifts into the world? Are you ready to stand in ownership of the power that you have? If you answered YES, then you don’t want to miss this FREE telesummit! Click here to sign up for Your Sacred Sexy Life!

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Date:
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Price:FREE

Monday, March 14, 2016

Life Mastery Beyond 40 Summit

Master your life beyond 40: Learn how others over 40 have courageously and joyfully created new life stories including purpose-driven, conscious businesses. Learn specific strategies, exercises & easy tips on how to overcome your mindset or anything else that might be holding you back. Learn how you can create a healthy mind, body & spirit; how you can reverse your age, build a dream business, make money, have freedom, find love and serve the world at ANY age. And learn how to begin the process from those experts who have mastered their own lives and now teach it! Summit starts Monday March 14th and continues until April 5th. Tune in to Lamara’s interview March 29th; the recording will be available for 72 hours!

Register here: http://lifemasterybeyond40.com/LamaraHeartwell

Venue:

Date:
Monday, March 14, 2016

Price:FREE

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

The 2016 Body Intelligence Summit

We’ve all been raised in a disembodied world – sitting at awkward desks for far too many hours, squinting at screens, learning through our brains alone – and thinking of our bodies like machines we need to fuel rather than exquisite works of art to savor. The result? We feel lethargic, disconnected and depleted. We gain weight and develop chronic health problems. We feel tense and uninspired The Body Intelligence Summit is here to shift all that – helping you open new vistas of vitality, creativity and joy through the journey of becoming more deeply, beautifully and deliciously embodied.

We’ve all been raised in a disembodied world – sitting at awkward desks for far too many hours, squinting at screens, learning through our brains alone – and thinking of our bodies like machines we need to fuel rather than exquisite works of art to savor.

The result? We feel lethargic, disconnected and depleted. We gain weight and develop chronic health problems. We feel tense and uninspired.

The Body Intelligence Summit is here to shift all that – helping you open new vistas of vitality, creativity and joy through the journey of becoming more deeply, beautifully and deliciously embodied.

Here’s what some past Body Intelligence Summit participants have to say about their experience:

Just listening to the presentations was a daily encouragement to return to the body and its wisdom. I was most moved by approaches using movement to source both, and have been allowing my body to “move” me. The result was easy access to my child nature and joy! – Valerie Bird, Vancouver, BC, Canada

I am so much more aware of my body’s intelligent language now and am paying more attention to what it is telling me about what I should be doing and how to make decisions including its wisdom. – Patrick Yesh

This summit was an amazing experience. It brought so much positive vibes and reminded us of the essential principles of our human existence. I absolutely support and am deeply grateful for the efforts and the time put into this wonderful week. Thank you all! – Neda Cepincic

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Our 3 day intensive last year was a great success! We have expanded the curriculum for a 5-day workshop at Esalen. Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich, millennia-long wisdom we carry in our cells. Body intelligence is the direct, consciously felt experience of being alive, from the flow of blood and sensation to the many feelings and mental shifts that weave with our responses to being in a body, in relationships, work and the world.

A 5-day workshop at Esalen with Katie Hendricks and Lamara Heartwell

Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich, millennia-long wisdom we carry in our cells. Body intelligence is the direct, consciously felt experience of being alive, from the flow of blood and sensation to the many feelings and mental shifts that weave with our responses to being in a body, in relationships, work and the world. If you’re ready to increase the level of energy, joy, clarity, and connection in your life, this seminar will open a wide doorway for you to:

Discover YOUR true body intelligence: for example, how to easily recognize your inner signals for yes and no

Increase your band-width for receiving and acting on the messages from your body

Navigate the flow of your day with vitality and balance

Create more fun with work and more pleasure in general

Shift easily from stress and fear to creativity and collaboration

Expand your capacity for giving and receiving more love

Heal our collective 2000+ year old myth that the body is bad and must be controlled

Come join us for a delicious week at one of the world’s top retreat centers!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Santa Barbara Dance Tribe – Every Sunday

Freeform, contact improv, acro-yoga, meditative, social or private, ballroom, salsa, hip-hop, you name it. This is an ecstatic community dance experience in which everyone is invited to express their most authentic selves.

Dance Tribe is a sacred movement playground where all forms of dance are welcome.

Freeform, contact improv, acro-yoga, meditative, social or private, ballroom, salsa, hip-hop, you name it. This is an ecstatic community dance experience in which everyone is invited to express their most authentic selves.

Dance Tribe welcomes all ages, it is alcohol & drug-free, and is held in a wonderful dance space with high ceilings, a great sprung floor, unique lighting and fantastic music spun by DJs experienced in fueling ecstatic dance journeys.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Plugging into your Body Intelligence: A Talk at Fit Buddha

I'm offering a free talk next Thursday the 26th, 7:30-8:30pm at my favorite fitness studio in town: Fit Buddha! I'll be sharing the basics about Body Intelligence so you can learn simple ways to live more in your body and less in your head. If you'd like to boost the level of energy, joy, and clarity in your life, come check this out. We'll explore how to listen to your body signals so you can make the best choices for optimal health and well-being.

– Explore how to listen to your body signals so you can make the best choices for optimal health and well-being

– Learn simple tools to apply to your daily routine to shift from a head driven life to a body centered life.

– Discover the joy of embodied connection to yourself, others, and the world

– Amp up your capacity to occupy a state of love and simply enjoy and appreciate being alive.

Venue:Fit Buddha
Santa Barbara,
CA 93101

Time:7:30pm - 8:30pm

Date:
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Price:FREE

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Body Intelligence Summit

We’ve all been raised in a disembodied world – sitting at awkward desks for far too many hours, squinting at screens, learning through our brains alone – and thinking of our bodies like machines we need to fuel rather than exquisite works of art to savor. The result? We feel lethargic, disconnected and depleted. We gain weight and develop chronic health problems. We feel tense and uninspired The Body Intelligence Summit is here to shift all that – helping you open new vistas of vitality, creativity and joy through the journey of becoming more deeply, beautifully and deliciously embodied.

The Shift Network’s Body Intelligence Summit

The Body Intelligence Summit – February 17-20 2015

Discover the joys of becoming deeply, deliciously embodied. Join 20 of the world’s top experts in this emergent field – including Dean Ornish, Bruce Lipton, Gay and Katie Hendricks, Lamara Heartwell, and others. You’ll experience:

We’ve all been raised in a disembodied world – sitting at awkward desks for far too many hours, squinting at screens, learning through our brains alone – and thinking of our bodies like machines we need to fuel rather than exquisite works of art to savor.

The result? We feel lethargic, disconnected and depleted. We gain weight and develop chronic health problems. We feel tense and uninspired.

The Body Intelligence Summit is here to shift all that – helping you open new vistas of vitality, creativity and joy through the journey of becoming more deeply, beautifully and deliciously embodied.

Here’s what some past Body Intelligence Summit participants have to say about their experience:

Just listening to the presentations was a daily encouragement to return to the body and its wisdom. I was most moved by approaches using movement to source both, and have been allowing my body to “move” me. The result was easy access to my child nature and joy! – Valerie Bird, Vancouver, BC, Canada

I am so much more aware of my body’s intelligent language now and am paying more attention to what it is telling me about what I should be doing and how to make decisions including its wisdom. – Patrick Yesh

This summit was an amazing experience. It brought so much positive vibes and reminded us of the essential principles of our human existence. I absolutely support and am deeply grateful for the efforts and the time put into this wonderful week. Thank you all! – Neda Cepincic

Friday, January 16, 2015

A 3-day workshop at Esalen Institute with Lamara

A 3-day workshop at Esalen. Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich, millennia-long wisdom we carry in our cells. Body intelligence is the direct, consciously felt experience of being alive, from the flow of blood and sensation to the many feelings and mental shifts that weave with our responses to being in a body, in relationships, work and the world.

A 3-day workshop at Esalen with Katie Hendricks and Lamara Heartwell

Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich, millennia-long wisdom we carry in our cells. Body intelligence is the direct, consciously felt experience of being alive, from the flow of blood and sensation to the many feelings and mental shifts that weave with our responses to being in a body, in relationships, work and the world. If you’re ready to increase the level of energy, joy, clarity, and connection in your life, this seminar will open a wide doorway for you to:

Discover YOUR true body intelligence: for example, how to easily recognize your inner signals for yes and no

Increase your band-width for receiving and acting on the messages from your body

Navigate the flow of your day with vitality and balance

Create more fun with work and more pleasure in general

Shift easily from stress and fear to creativity and collaboration

Expand your capacity for giving and receiving more love

Heal our collective 2000+ year old myth that the body is bad and must be controlled

Come join us for a delicious weekend at one of the world’s top retreat centers!

A one day workshop in Santa Barbara with Lisa Citore and Lamara Heartwell

Friday, June 13, 2014

BC3: Lamara presents at 3-day conference in Boulder, CO

The BC3 (in collaboration with Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks and the Hendricks Institute) is excited to present “What is Your Body IQ?”: Body Intelligence Lab on June 13-15, 2014. We intend for these three days to be filled with fun, learning, play, co-creativity, and inspiration, as we come together to celebrate and share our learnings about the amazing and transformative work of Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.

Celebrate and share our learnings about the amazing and transformative work of Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks

The BC3 (in collaboration with Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks and the Hendricks Institute) is excited to present “What is Your Body IQ?”: Body Intelligence Lab on June 13-15, 2014. We intend for these three days to be filled with fun, learning, play, co-creativity, and inspiration, as we come together to celebrate and share our learnings about the amazing and transformative work of Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.

We intend for the Body Intelligence lab to be:

A vehicle for energetic transmission from Gay and Katie Hendricks, the masters of this amazing and transformative work.

A showcase for how the larger Hendricks community is using this work, especially how people who are immersed in their communities have taken it to a next level in their professional practices and understandings.

A way for the larger community to participate in the genii of those using it.

A time to for the whole community to come together, reconnect, play, and celebrate our ties to the magical work of the Hendricks.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Live Talk with Lamara

If you’re ready to increase the level of energy, joy, clarity, and connection in your life, this seminar will open a wide doorway for you!

Humans have the opportunity to make the shift now from fear-focused, adrenaline-fueled living to full-body-intelligent living. Body intelligence expands our perspective beyond fear to the rich wisdom of millenniums of experience we carry in our cells including: all feelings and inner experience, informed responsive choices, heightened well-being, and open perception based on curiosity and possibility, rather than scarcity and prejudice.

Body Intelligence allows us to connect deeply with our essence and the flow of life that sparks genuine appreciation and collaboration with others. Body intelligence is the direct, consciously felt experience of being alive, from the flow of blood and sensation to the many attitudes and mental shifts that weave with our responses to being in a body, in relationships, work and the world. If you’re ready to increase the level of energy, joy, clarity, and connection in your life, this seminar will open a wide doorway for you!

Discover your true body intelligence:

Easily recognize your inner signals for yes and no

Increase your band-width for receiving and acting on the messages from your body

Navigate the flow of your day with vitality and balance

Discover the joy of embodied connection to yourself, others, and the world.

Shift easily from stress and fear to creativity and collaboration

Solve problems in new ways

Create more fun with work and more pleasure in general

Directly and fully participate in life

Expand your capacity for giving and receiving more love

Heal our collective 2000+ year old myth that the body is bad and must be controlled

Learn easy and practical tips and tools to apply to your daily life to shift from a head driven life to a body centered life.

Lamara is a body intelligence expert who speaks, facilitates and performs, inspiring people to claim their bodies as an essential source of intelligence, power, and pleasure.

She holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a coaching certification through the Hendricks Institute, two years of counseling training at the Interchange Institute, and extensive yoga training since age 16.

Lamara founded Santa Barbara Dance Tribe in 2009, a thriving twice-weekly ecstatic dance event with a strong community presence since its inception. She has produced dozens of performance art events in California over the past 12 years.

As the great-grand daughter of one of the founders of Exxon, her passion and advocacy for environmental sustainability has been influenced by her family lineage in the oil industry. Lamara is as invested in the health of the planet as she is in the health of our bodies, and sees a direct relationship between the two. She is dedicated to the cultural shift of a more embodied humanity.

Lamara lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. In her free time, her greatest joy is dancing and playing on the magical and wild shores of the pacific.

A delightful journey to discover a new relationship with your body – one that liberates the innate wisdom in your cells and fills your life with more enjoyment and energy.

New Live Training Starts Thursday, March 13, 2014

The verdict is in: a life of deep, delicious embodiment is not only more pleasurable, it creates better health, a longer life, stronger relationships, and even more creativity! We eat better, we laugh more, and we have more satisfying sex. We release our distractions and subtle addictions, and experience more joy in each moment.

Science supports this conclusion, which also relates to our lived experience. When we are more connected with our bodies, as when we are dancing, at a yoga retreat or on a tropical getaway, we just FEEL better.

So the question isn’t if it’s valuable to become more embodied, the only real question is how to go about it?

That’s why we are so delighted to present this Liberating Your Body Intelligence course – which builds upon the enlightening information shared during the groundbreaking Body Intelligence Summit. You’ll discover a powerful, systematic guided program lead by co-hosts Katie Hendricks and Lamara Heartwell – helping you rewire your body and mind together, while joyfully connecting to teachings, practices and community (from the comfort of your home).

Monday, February 10, 2014

The Body Intelligence Summit

A Pioneering Online Event That Unites Scientists, Therapists, Doctors, Dancers, and YOU For the First Time Ever

Discover the joy of embodied connection to yourself, others and our world

A Pioneering Online Event That Unites Scientists, Therapists,
Dancers, Bodyworkers and YOU For the First Time Ever

February 10-13, 2014

We’ve all been raised in a disembodied world – sitting at awkward desks for far too many hours, squinting at screens, learning through our brains alone, and thinking of our bodies as machines to feed with fuel rather than exquisite works of art to savor.

The result? We feel lethargic, isolated, disconnected and depleted. We develop strange diseases. We put on weight. We feel tense and uncreative.

The Body Intelligence Summit is here to change all that – helping you open new vistas of aliveness, joy, creativity, vitality and FUN through the journey of becoming more deeply, beautifully and deliciously embodied.

The truth is that your body holds vast intelligence and wisdom – from the precise communication system of your nervous system, to the power of your muscles, to the distributed sensitivity of your skin. Modern science is just barely discovering how complexly creative, wonderfully balanced and intricately interconnected it all is.